2019: Writing
31 December 2019 16:05![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
writerproblem193I saw someone on tumblr do a similar post and monkey see, monkey do. So here's what I've written this year!
According to AO3, where pretty much all my stuff has gone, I've written 26693 words. I'm trying to think of what isn't included in that, but there's not too much. Most of what isn't posted on AO3 or isn't posted on that account is just, terrible porn. Anyway.
Original work I'll talk about first! Most of it is Ladiesbingo. Or at least, the stories are the ones I wrote for Ladiesbingo. You can find them in my ladiesbingo tag here on dreamwidth, or in this work on AO3. The stories are all around 1k or under and they cover topics from ghosts to "what if Orpheus/Eurydice but modern and friendship", zombie horse girl communism, and gentle love magic. My goal for a while now has been to get back to writing original stuff so I'm glad I took a shot at it this year.
Also kind of original was The Princess and the Pea-Curse, a gay 'n magic-ier take on the Princess and the Pea for the fairy tale exchange. I like it!
In terms of porn, I set up a pseud for some Tiger's Curse nonsense. I'll quarantine any other absolute nonsense that involves dicks on it in the future. I really am proud of the story, no matter how... oh boy... it is in a lot of ways. The idea itched at me until I wrote it and now the idea has left me alone. Fuck yeah. You can read it here if you like, but it's extremely lore heavy and sappy so ymmv. 2356 words though!
The other porn is a noir parody, two stories so far. Together they clock in at 1322 words which really. Is too many. Fucking save me. Save me from the fucking. And no, I won't post links or anything. You'll have to write your own.
And huh, I only wrote for two fandoms this year! The Adventure Zone: Amnesty, and Star Trek. Though I guess I did write for Star Trek: Discovery and also Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.
Only half the TAZ stuff is up, cause the second (longer) story is for a candlenights exchange. Story one is this, which is a short story about all my feelings on revelations in the finale and how they would probably lead to eerie snuggling. The second story is... god I can't say anything about it. Only that I really like it and also talking about it with a friend made me laugh very hard.
Star Trek! I actually only wrote one Discovery fic, a 2k Michael/Tilly uh. Porn fic. I wrote a lot of porn this year didn't I. It's a first, I guess. Gotta get the practice in somewhere! It's called supernova and its less porny than it sounds, it's more about that good good emotional connection.
DS9 and KiraDax is where the real fic was this year, in no small part to my lovely KiraDax discord server. I haven't been as active as I'd like lately because more people keep joining and they all talk so much now which is overwhelming but I love it there. Anyway, Spotted Kissing On The Promenade is my new compilation fic for any KiraDax prompts I get through Tumblr or elsewhere I guess. I did two fics for the biweekly prompt challenge on the server. This one is about nature ghosts and is honestly one of my fave fics I've written. And this one also has some little worldbuilding. Then when my grandfather said something homophobic earlier this year I wrote this fic who's True Name™ is "they get super ultra extra duper married".
Finally this year, my big project at 13k was Counterbalance. I wrote the intro in June 2018 or something and finally picked it back up and finished it this year for a Big Bang. It morphed from a story about "lol fuck the government" to me pouring out my feelings about love and trauma and communication and community. Which seems like a lot for 13k, but it took months to write. I don't know. I'm so, so proud of it. Here's the post I wrote about writing it, if you wanted to know more.
Stories not in original wordcount: 2356 Tiger's Cursed, 1322 Noir Porn, 1549 Candlenights. Which is 5227 words, which takes my total 2019 to 31920 words. Given that I felt I wrote """nothing""" this year that's pretty kickass. In 2018 I wrote 48k words, and in 2017 it was 89k. Which is a trend downwards but I've been going to uni and also dealing with *waves hand at all mental stuff*. So I'm proud of where I am and where I've been.
According to AO3, where pretty much all my stuff has gone, I've written 26693 words. I'm trying to think of what isn't included in that, but there's not too much. Most of what isn't posted on AO3 or isn't posted on that account is just, terrible porn. Anyway.
Original work I'll talk about first! Most of it is Ladiesbingo. Or at least, the stories are the ones I wrote for Ladiesbingo. You can find them in my ladiesbingo tag here on dreamwidth, or in this work on AO3. The stories are all around 1k or under and they cover topics from ghosts to "what if Orpheus/Eurydice but modern and friendship", zombie horse girl communism, and gentle love magic. My goal for a while now has been to get back to writing original stuff so I'm glad I took a shot at it this year.
Also kind of original was The Princess and the Pea-Curse, a gay 'n magic-ier take on the Princess and the Pea for the fairy tale exchange. I like it!
In terms of porn, I set up a pseud for some Tiger's Curse nonsense. I'll quarantine any other absolute nonsense that involves dicks on it in the future. I really am proud of the story, no matter how... oh boy... it is in a lot of ways. The idea itched at me until I wrote it and now the idea has left me alone. Fuck yeah. You can read it here if you like, but it's extremely lore heavy and sappy so ymmv. 2356 words though!
The other porn is a noir parody, two stories so far. Together they clock in at 1322 words which really. Is too many. Fucking save me. Save me from the fucking. And no, I won't post links or anything. You'll have to write your own.
And huh, I only wrote for two fandoms this year! The Adventure Zone: Amnesty, and Star Trek. Though I guess I did write for Star Trek: Discovery and also Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.
Only half the TAZ stuff is up, cause the second (longer) story is for a candlenights exchange. Story one is this, which is a short story about all my feelings on revelations in the finale and how they would probably lead to eerie snuggling. The second story is... god I can't say anything about it. Only that I really like it and also talking about it with a friend made me laugh very hard.
Star Trek! I actually only wrote one Discovery fic, a 2k Michael/Tilly uh. Porn fic. I wrote a lot of porn this year didn't I. It's a first, I guess. Gotta get the practice in somewhere! It's called supernova and its less porny than it sounds, it's more about that good good emotional connection.
DS9 and KiraDax is where the real fic was this year, in no small part to my lovely KiraDax discord server. I haven't been as active as I'd like lately because more people keep joining and they all talk so much now which is overwhelming but I love it there. Anyway, Spotted Kissing On The Promenade is my new compilation fic for any KiraDax prompts I get through Tumblr or elsewhere I guess. I did two fics for the biweekly prompt challenge on the server. This one is about nature ghosts and is honestly one of my fave fics I've written. And this one also has some little worldbuilding. Then when my grandfather said something homophobic earlier this year I wrote this fic who's True Name™ is "they get super ultra extra duper married".
Finally this year, my big project at 13k was Counterbalance. I wrote the intro in June 2018 or something and finally picked it back up and finished it this year for a Big Bang. It morphed from a story about "lol fuck the government" to me pouring out my feelings about love and trauma and communication and community. Which seems like a lot for 13k, but it took months to write. I don't know. I'm so, so proud of it. Here's the post I wrote about writing it, if you wanted to know more.
Stories not in original wordcount: 2356 Tiger's Cursed, 1322 Noir Porn, 1549 Candlenights. Which is 5227 words, which takes my total 2019 to 31920 words. Given that I felt I wrote """nothing""" this year that's pretty kickass. In 2018 I wrote 48k words, and in 2017 it was 89k. Which is a trend downwards but I've been going to uni and also dealing with *waves hand at all mental stuff*. So I'm proud of where I am and where I've been.
